Friend of Princess Kate slams Megan's 'hug' claims, explosive final doco teaser drops

The Prince and Princess of Wales are reportedly avoiding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix docuseries.

People Magazine has reported that while Prince William and Kate will not be watching the series, they have requested their aides to tune in.

A Palace source told the magazine the relationship between William and Harry remains strained, despite this, William and Kate have still asked their aides to watch the six-part series that airs its final three episodes tonight on Netflix.

Speaking about the brothers’ relationship following the Queen’s funeral in September, a source close to the royals said, “It will take a long time before there is harmony between the brothers,” going on to say, “There is a lot of anger there.”

It comes after the first three episodes of Harry and Meghan’s bombshell docuseries dropped last week and included the former Suits actress telling a story about the first time she met the couple.

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“When Will and Kate came over and I had met her for the first time, they came over for dinner,” Meghan said. “I remember I was in ripped jeans and barefoot.”

“Like I was a hugger, always been a hugger,” she added. “I didn’t realise that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.”

She then appeared to make a dig at the royals saying, “I guess I’d start to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside, carried through on the inside,” adding, “There is a forward-facing way of being and then you close the door and you relax now. But that formality carries over on both sides. And that was surprising to me.”

A friend of Kate’s has since hit back at the claims telling People Magazine, “Kate is a big hugger”.

The friend went on to say the princess is not only “warm and friendly” but usually greets everyone with a “big hug and a kiss” even going as far as to say it’s an act that comes “naturally” to the mother of three.

The second part of the Californian-based royals’ series is due to be released on Netflix tonight, with the final trailer being unveiled late last night.

In the trailer, Meghan appears to declare war on the royal family as she accused senior members of the Palace of conspiring against her to slander her in the press.

The duchess claimed that she was used as a “scapegoat” and that stories about her would appear online and in newspapers after negative stories about other royals were printed.

In the new clip, Jenny Afia - a partner at London's Schillings Law Firm - says: "There was a real kind of war against Meghan, and I've certainly seen evidence that there was negative

briefing from the Palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other peoples' agendas."

Friend Lucy Fraser adds: "Meg became this scapegoat for the Palace, and so they would feed stories on her, whether they were true or not, to avoid other less favourable stories being printed."

The AGE-year-old former actress herself insists you could "see it play out" whenever "someone in the family" made the news in a negative way.

She says: "You would just see it play out. A story about someone in the family would pop up for a minute, and they'd go, 'We gotta make that go away'.

"But there's real estate on a website homepage, there is real estate there on a newspaper front cover and something has be filled in there about someone royal."

Afia comments that the amount of coverage about the "breakdown of the relationship with her father" Thomas Markle Sr. was the last straw.

She says: "This barrage of negative articles about the breakdown of the relationship with her father was the final straw in a campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her."

In another trailer released earlier this week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex appeared to accuse the Palace of being willing to "lie to protect" his "brother" Prince William.

In the teaser Harry said: "They were happy to lie to protect my brother. They were never willing to tell the truth to protect us."

In the trailer, Meghan - who previously was known as Meghan Markle before she gave up acting and married Harry - claims she was "being fed to the wolves" as Harry speaks about "institutional gaslighting" as footage is shown of newspaper presses rolling.

Speaking into the camera, Meghan says: "I wasn’t being thrown to the wolves. I was being fed to the wolves.”

Harry & Megan continues tonight on Netflix.